A very entertaining new TV commercial just arrived from John Faso, the Republican candidate for governor, in which he intersperses images of his opponent, Democratic AG Eliot Spitzer, and Comptroller Alan Hevesi.
The link is here.
Eliot is cast in an ominous yellowish hue, while Alan -- in slow motion -- licks his upper lip with his tongue, a pretty bizarre touch that can only be meant to disgust the viewer.
The commercial then quotes from the state Ethics report, says Hevesi stole tens of thosuands of taxpayer dollars, and zooms in on Spitzer from the first guv's debate calling Hevesi an "honest, stupendous public servant." It hammers him for refusing to investigate the chauffeur-gate scandal or asking Hevesi to resign, and accuses Spitzer of "stupendously protecting his cronies at our expense."
In fact, Spitzer's office eventually started looking at the amount Hevesi has repaid the state for his wife's driver, and yesterday he revoked his endorsement, although he still hasn't asked Alan to resign.
As for Faso, who tried twice and failed to become state comptroller, how he must be wishing he could put on a bow tie right now and insert himself on the ballot for the man from Saratoga, Chris Callaghan.
Michael Rothfeld
Comments (2)
Too bad after this coming election day, Faso will be a 3 time statewide loser. Running this kind of trash ad confirms why he never wins anything...absolutely no class at all...desperate candidates say and do desperate things....shame on you Faso.......andy
My question is are any Republicans running positive adds? Sweeney, Faso, Meir are all running very negative adds. It almost like they have nothing good to say about themselves so they end up only being able to trash their opponents.
Why can't the "moral majority" say something about the good they have done? Simple, because they have done nothing good in at least a decade.